Randomness! And romance? Not sure, never really written that before but hey! Theres a prank and a lucky parchment so, i think it's ok.
"So, you two have a shared detention?" George asked, as Lee and Fred came out of McGonagall's office.
"Yeah," Fred huffed, "I still don't think it's fair. It's not like it's my fault Flitwicks so short, I was just giving the guy a hug."
"You tackled him," Lee pointed out, "You managed to knock Katherine over with that and yet you went and tackle Flitwick as well. He's like, this big." He held his hand out to represent Flitwick's height.
"Speaking of, where are the girls?" Fred asked.
"Up at the tower, they said they didn't want to wait around simply to find out what detention you'd gotten," George replied.
"Well, isn't that a disappointment," Fred replied, "No one to comfort those who work tirelessly to bring laughter to the halls Hogwarts."
"Speaking of, we still haven't seen the gargoyle Fred."
"Fair point, let's go that way. You coming Lee?"
"Yeah, might as well."
The trio wandered through the hall towards Dumbledore's office, it was a fairly well known path for those three. When they got there the statue merely glanced at them through his one visible eye before going solid as it often was. It had a Christmas hat sitting over an ear and covering its other eye, it was covered in red and green tinsel, with fake bats and skeletons hanging from it. It also had a muggle Halloween mask sitting twisted to be sitting on its ear and a lolly basket, which actually had a few lollies in it.
"Nice job Lee," Fred commended, "Where'd you get all this stuff?"
"I owled my mum," Lee replied, "She's a muggle born so she was able to get me some simple decorations."
"Definitely did really well," George nodded, "Dumbledore must agree if he hasn't had the Vanished yet."
"That's a good point, after all…"
"Water bomb!"
"Glitter!"
"Confetti!"
"And some magic!"
The boys all stood frozen for a moment, trying to figure out what was going on. They were now dripping, covered in glitter and torn up pieces of paper. Plus there was distinctly feminine laughing.
"Bloody hell!" Fred announced loudly, "What'd you do?"
"One would think that was obvious," Alicia pointed out. All the girl were conveniently positioned on top on the roof, using the stone decorations of the castle as seats.
"I can't believe you actually got that to work Katherine," Katie commented, "You did a really good job."
"Yeah, because we were forcing her to read up on it with us," Angelina replied, "It's a little creepy how well she knows the library."
"Well, the library's a very helpful place to know," Katherine said, grinning down at the boys, "And a few late nights finishing of homework will be so worth it. You really didn't need to force me, this is highly entertaining."
Suddenly Lee stared laughing and Fred and George turned to stare at him before they started laughing too.
"Wait, Fred and George are just laughing at Lee's sign, right?" Angelina clarified
"Yep," Katie nodded, "They haven't realised they've each got one. It's oddly comfortable up here."
"And clean," Alicia agreed, "The house elves do a good job. What d'you think fred and George'll do when they work it out?"
"Sitting outside the Headmasters office?" Katherine asked, "What can they do really?"
"Anything we want want!" Fred announced.
"For we have…" George continued, searching his pockets.
"This?" Katherine offered, holding up the blank and folded Marauders Map, the twins gaped at her, "Sorry guys, the girls claimed my loyalties first. I had to make sure you wouldn't have any major advantages."
"It's a bit of parchment," Lee pointed out, "How's it an advantage."
"It's their lucky parchment," Katherine lied easily, "They have it on them for almost all they're major pranks. It's really old too."
"You guys have a lucky bit of parchment?" Lee asked the twins, but as he turned to them he started laughing again.
"Why do you keep doing that?" Fred demanded, "You're the one who's got a sign over your head saying 'Girls rule the school'."
"Just so everyone's aware," Katherine announced, "I didn't come up with that one."
"Whatever you say, Stupid," Lee replied to Fred, "But you both have signs as well."
"We do?" George asked, turning to Fred, who was already reading his. Fred's sign read 'I am Stupid'. He didn't quite get the joke, at the moment it was just an insult.
"Fred, what's mine say?" he asked. Fred was chuckling slightly, though also looking put out.
"It says 'I'm with Stupid'," He replied, then looked up at the girls, who were watching with great amusement, "Why am I 'Stupid'?"
"We flipped a coin," Katie replied nonchalantly, "You lost."
"Ok, so how are you planning to get out of here without us getting you back?" George asked.
"You forget that everyone here, except Katherine, is on the Quidditch team," Angelina answered, "And she has her own broom anyway."
"Ah, that makes sense," Lee nodded.
"Time to move," Katherine announced to everyone's surprise, and the twins watched her tuck the map into her pocket, "Filch's on his way. Think you three can get away on you own?"
"Of course!" Fred and George replied immediately.
"That's good, let's go," Angelina commanded. Each of the girls pulled a broom out and took off down the hall.
"Quickly guys in here," George announced as they ran down the hall, ducking into an empty room.
"So, do we dare try to remove the signs?" Lee asked. Fred and George looked at each other.
"It was Katherine's magic," Fred offered
"She always makes sure it's reversible," George agreed.
"But she loves backfires."
"So it could be a bad idea to try it ourselves."
"And she was researching it, so it's complicated magic."
"Likely she's the only one of the girls who knows how."
"Best to just leave them," They said, nodding in agreement.
"Oddly compliant," Lee noted, "Also, it's a little scary that you put that much thought into it. Imagine how others would feel. If you think about it very few people actually consider her a rule breaker."
"That's a fair point," George replied, "She puts up a good front."
"It's all about an image for her," Fred added, carefully peeking out the door, "But she enjoys it as much as the rest of us. Anyway, Filch has past, we should head to the Common room."
"That was brilliant!" Katie cheered as they clambered through the portrait hole.
"I know! They never suspected a thing!" Alicia agreed excitedly.
"You realise they won't let this lye, right?" Katherine asked, turning to look at them only to bump into a rather solid figure.
"Good to see you too Kat," Charlie offered, then noticed the broom, "Were you out flying?"
"Hm? Oh, no, not till the next practise, Oliver approved it," Katherine replied, grinning at Charlie, "We were just giving Fred and George a hard time."
"Kat, we gotta go upstairs," Katie called, "You know how good they are with their short cuts. They'll be here soon."
"You lot are so weird," Charlie laughed, "Most people have enough trouble with their average jokes."
"Yes well, I'm considering this a revenge prank," Katherine shrugged, "Because I don't like being woken up in the middle of the night. Don't worry Katie, I'm faster than them anyway."
"I don't think…"
"Have I ever told you I love you Kat?" Charlie asked, still laughing, just as the twins burst into the room. For a half second there was a silence that seemed to crackle with tension but Katie, apparently oblivious to this, made some incomprehensible high pitch noise, grabbed Katherine's hand and pulled her up the stairs.
"What took you guys so long?" Angelina demanded, Katherine rolled her eyes, talking a seat on her bed.
"Kat was talking to Charlie," Katie announced, flopping onto the foot of her bed.
"Really Katherine?" Alicia asked, "When we're right in the middle of…"
Thump
"Thump?" All the girls asked, sitting up straight and looking towards the staircase just in time to see it morphing back into stairs.
"Who do you think it was?" Angelina asked blankly, the excited atmosphere suddenly seeming slightly dead.
"Probably Lee," Katherine replied, flopping back onto the bed, head hanging over one side, "Fred and George spent over an hour trying to out run the stairs last year. I doubt they'd try that again."
"Pfft," Alicia snorted, laughing at the mental image, "Why would they do that?"
"You ok Kat?" Angelina asked, "You look weird."
"She does?" Katie asked, looking Katherine over.
"Yeah, but it's not quite 'sick' weird," Angelina explained awkwardly, "It's more like…"
"Like when you're struggling to find an answer in homework!" Katie announced, "And you just can't work it out, and then you start getting paranoid and you begin to think that everyone else must know but they've decided not to tell you so you going around trying to peak at their notes only to find out that you knew the answer all along but you still totally disagree with it and have no idea how it came to that."
"You talk a lot," Alicia pointed out.
"And you're really critical," Katie shot back, "Ah, the secrets we share."
"I'm fine, by the way," Katherine announced, "If anyone was still wondering. I'm just thinking…"
"And? You think…what exactly?" Angelina asked.
"I think I'm going to go talk to dragon boy," Katherine replied pushing herself off her bed.
"Really?" Katie asked, "With the boys down there?"
"It'll be fine," Katherine replied, glancing at her watch, "If they haven't already gone upstairs to plot then they don't have it in for us."
"Scarily well thought out logic," Alicia nodded.
"Isn't it though?" Katherine replied, heading downstairs. Once down she looked around confusedly, Fred, George and Lee were nowhere to be seen but Charlie was sprawled across the floor.
"What happened?" She asked casually, leaning over Charlie, who blinked up at her before making himself sit up.
"I'm not a hundred per cent sure," he answered, rubbing the back of his head, "But I think I'm disliked at the moment."
"Well, what'd you do?" Katherine asked, Charlie looked up at her curiously for a moment before shrugging.
"No idea, but it's got Fred in a bad mood," he answered, giving her a wave over his shoulder as he walked off, "Well, I've got study to do."
"Oh, yes that's helpful dragon boy," Katherine muttered in response, sighing as the looked up the stairs to the boys dorm, "This isn't going to be fun."
It's been two days, Katherine thought dully, Two days since we pulled our prank, two days without revenge, two days of classes in which they didn't speak to me, two days where I was reminded that I was the big outsider here, two days. Damn it all, that's two to many!
She glared darkly into her potion, slightly hopping it would explode just to get some reaction from the two idiot red heads who seemed to want nothing to do with her. An explosion would do nicely. No matter the reason, they'd never ignore an explosion just because they'd stopped talking to her. She shook herself slightly, adding the next ingredient. Ok, so she was getting a bit paranoid about this, after all, it wasn't only her the twins were annoying. They'd actually been doing it to a lot of people. No, that wasn't right either, it was more like they were distancing themselves. A lot of people hadn't even noticed, but it's a little hard not to notice when you're two best friends stopped talking to you.
It looks more like Fred's fault, Katherine thought, glaring at Fred's back, He's the more emotional anyway, though still good in classes, at least George can actually sit quietly and work…if you push him. So something happened that irritated Fred and George's been trying to calm him down? Well, no, that's unlikely, besides it must have been something serious if they haven't already got their revenge prank done. Can't even go ask dragon boy he's being all…skittish.
Realistically, for someone to be skittish of the Weasley twins was not uncommon, even less so amongst their family but… Generally they got on well with Charlie, and Percy was acting perfectly normal.
Snape announced that they'd be leaving the potions to stew and everyone filed from the classroom. Katherine watched darkly as the twins wandered of on their own.
"So I'm not the only one thinking their acting odd?" Angelina asked, Katherine raised an eyebrow.
"Maybe not, but at least George is still talking to you," she replied, as far as she was aware Fred wasn't talking to any. It was pissing her of greatly that George still talked to people. He said one or two words to her on rare occasions, but that was it.
"Yeah, I guess," Angelina replied with a sigh, "He seems really conserned though, not as happy as normal. Anyway, where are you going to go till dinner?"
"I'm going to go do some research," Katherine said decidedly. Angelina watched her confusedly as she walked off towards the Common room. Alicia walked up behind her.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"I'm not sure," Angelina replied, "But it's either about to get fixed or it's going to get much worse."
Katherine walked into the Common room to find exactly the person she'd been looking for just about to leave. In fact all the Weasley's were present, Fred and George were sitting in a corner together, talking it seemed, while Charlie was at the opposite end of the room, reading and shooting discreet glances at them.
"Hey Katherine," Percy sighed, "Fred and George just got here, so I was about to leave."
"Yeah, any idea what's up with them lately?" Katherine asked nonchalantly. Percy snorted.
"Not a clue," he replied, "No one tells me anything, but from the little I've figure out, Charlie got something that Fred wanted first and Fred been taking it really badly. George's trying to calm him but isn't having much luck and Charlie's trying to avoid them less Fred tries to kill him."
"Oh," Katherine replied blankly, So Fred's being a baby because Charlie got something he wanted? That bloody idiot. I mean, honestly, he's being such a child, and not in the good 'everything is fun' way.
"M'kay, thanks Percy," Katherine smiled, Percy shrugged and left the Common room. Katherine sighed before heading over to the twins with a casual smile. "Hey guys," she greeted, whatching them tense slightly at her voice, "Um, George, Angelina's looking for you."
"She is?" George asked, forgetting that they were excluding her apparently, "What for?"
"I'm not really sure," Katherine replied, frowning slightly, "But it seemed pretty important."
"Right," George nodded, getting up, "See you two at dinner." Fred and Katherine watched as he ran off from the room.
"He forgot that you guys aren't talking to me didn't he?" Katherine asked.
"Yeah, he doesn't even have the map," Fred replied, then seemed to realise what he said, "Whast makes you think we aren't talking to you?"
"Well, first clue was that you haven't tried to get us back yet, next you haven't spoken to me in two days, and you never even lasted that long when we weren't friends, finally, you won't look at me."
"Yeah, well, stuff happens," Fred replied with a shrug, though she recognised a faint blush.
"Yeah, I heard, Charlie got something you wanted so your sulking," Katherine replied, the cold tone making Fred look at her in surprise, "I just wanted to tell you that I'm demoting you, so you can go back to being stupid now."
"Hey! What do you mean you're demoting me?" Fred demanded, grabbing Katherine's arm so she couldn't walk off as she'd clearly been intending, "What'd I do to deserve that?"
"You're being such a child Fred," Katherine replied, still not showing any emotion. It was pissing him off to no end, "I mean honestly for something to make you act like this it must have been something really important to you yet you're just letting it go. That's so unlike you, most of the time you wouldn't let anyone get away with that, but here you are. You're sulking Fred, you've been sulking for two days. I have no interest in someone like that, it's boring."
Fred stared at her, she stared back, a questioning look on her face. She has no idea, He thought quietly, She honestly didn't realise that she was a main part in this. Damn it.
"Yeah, I guess your right, I should have gone about it differently," He sighed, though still not letting go of her, he was now holding her wrist rather than her arm.
"Yes, you should have, but you didn't," Katherine replied, still in that cold voice, "So I'm still demoting you, you've been worrying lots of people and terrifying everyone else 'cause they thought you were plotting something, Oliver's been worrying sick that something's going to ruin his team, Merlin only knows what you did to Charlie and you haven't said a word to me for two days. So if you don't mind, Fredric, I'd like to leave."
Fred flinched internally as he realised why she was being so cold. She hadn't been worrying about him so much as worrying that they didn't want to hang out with her anymore. We really did some damage, He thought, No, I did, George was just staying by me. I really messed this one up.
Katherine was still giving him that challenging look and, without thinking, he tugged her forward and wrapped her in a hug. He used the position to hide his wide grin from her, in that split second she'd seemed totally taken by surprise, he'd never seen that before.
"I'm sorry 'kay?" He tried, "I promise I'll deal with it differently next time." Not that there'll be a next time if I can help it, he added silently.
"Katherine! You liar!" George shouted suddenly as he stormed into the Common room, followed by a slightly confused looking Angelina.
"Yeah well, stuff happens," Katherine replied, looking at them over Fred's shoulder, Fred had also turned to give them a slightly annoyed look before turning back to rest his head on Katherine's shoulder. Katherine continued despite the odd looks they were being given, "Besides, Fred can be such a child, you didn't really want to hang around and watch me tell him off did you? Also, how do I get him off?"
"Uh…off?" George asked, totally blank face, though acknowledging that Fred began to shake with silent laughter.
"Yes, off," Katherine repeated, "He's being rather clingy and its hard to do much in this position. Honestly that chick I hexed should consider herself lucky, it could have been much worse." Fred shook even harder.
"I…uh, honestly don't know where to go from here," George informed her.
"Get Fred off me in a way that he doesn't revert to mood swings," Katherine instructed, "Honestly, one moment he's ignoring me, then he's snapping at me, then he's hugging me. I think you're mood swings are giving me whiplash."
"Do I even want to know what's going on?" Angelina asked.
"Probably not," George and Katherine replied.
I don't even know what's going on with this chapter, but i hope you liked it! Next chapter is the Chirstmas holidays! Or around that time.
R & R!